Updated 5:12 pm, Friday, February 21, 2014

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United Cab driver has been found dead in southwest Houston near apartment complex, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Houston police investigators talking to witnesses said that they heard shots around 11 pm last night. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle) less

United Cab driver has been found dead in southwest Houston near apartment complex, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Houston police investigators talking to witnesses said that they heard shots around 11 pm last night. ... more

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United Cab driver has been found dead in southwest Houston near apartment complex, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Houston police investigators talking to witnesses said that they heard shots around 11 p.m. last night.

United Cab driver has been found dead in southwest Houston near apartment complex, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Houston police investigators talking to witnesses said that they heard shots around 11 p.m. last night.

Photo: Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle

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United Cab driver has been found dead in southwest Houston near apartment complex, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Houston police investigators talking to witnesses said that they heard shots around 11 pm last night.

United Cab driver has been found dead in southwest Houston near apartment complex, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Houston police investigators talking to witnesses said that they heard shots around 11 pm last night.

Photo: Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle

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A body was found in the 4500 block of Phlox Friday morning, Feb. 21, 2014. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle)

A body was found in the 4500 block of Phlox Friday morning, Feb. 21, 2014. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle)

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A body was found in the 4500 block of Phlox Friday morning, Feb. 21, 2014. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle)

A body was found in the 4500 block of Phlox Friday morning, Feb. 21, 2014. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle)

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A man was found dead in his car at 7300 Brompton near Bellefontaine in southwest Houston, Feb. 21, 2014. (Ken Hoffman / Houston Chronicle)

A man was found dead in his car at 7300 Brompton near Bellefontaine in southwest Houston, Feb. 21, 2014. (Ken Hoffman / Houston Chronicle)

Houston homicide detectives have their hands full with two separate investigations in the deaths of two men in unrelated cases early Friday morning.

In the most recent case, a cab driver was discovered dead about 7:20 a.m. slumped over in his taxi in a parking area in front of the Camden Vanderbilt apartments at 7300 Brompton near Bellefontaine in southwest Houston, according to the Houston Police Department.

Police said he had been shot the night before and investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the apartment complex.

The cab driver had dropped off a fare about 11 p.m. at the apartments, said HPD Sgt. W.L. Meeler. A short time later more than one suspect approached him as he sat in his cab. The suspects, Meeler said, appeared to have walked to the cab from the street. The driver and the suspects had a disturbance and the cab driver got out of the car. Then he was shot. He got back into his cab. The suspects left after the gunfire. It's unclear if the suspects took anything from the cab or the driver.

A person who said he had seen the cab parked at the complex Thursday night noticed it parked at the same spot Friday morning. He contacted police, who were originally dispatched to the scene about a person down. Initially, it was not known how he died and it was believed he may have died from natural causes. However, Meeler said, when homicide investigators arrived, they realized he had been shot.

No gun was found at the scene.

Meeler said investigators don't believe the fare the cab driver had taken to the complex was involved in the shooting.

Residents in the neighborhood said the shooting was troubling to them. They said the area is usually quiet and seems safe.

David Escarzaga said he lives a few doors down from where the shooting happened. He just moved to the neighborhood about five months ago from El Paso and likes the serenity he found in his new community. But with the killing occurring so close to his front door, he said, it makes him realize how dangerous a big city can be.

"It's a little worrisome," he said.

In the other shooting, a man was found dead about 6 a.m. lying in a ditch at 4006 Phlox near Duane in south Houston. He had been shot.

Police said a passerby spotted the man and called 911. Investigators so far have no motive or suspects in the case.

Police said the two deaths appear to be unrelated.

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